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The Configuration Complexity Clock(mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
2 points by sssilver 17h ago|0 comments
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by sssilver 4d ago
I engraved mine for two practical reasons — tell mine apart from others and have contact info in case I lost it and it was found by a decent person.
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by sssilver 4d ago
And then an airplane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
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by sssilver 4d ago
Is "3rd world country" basically "Not a NATO country, but also not an Eastern Bloc country"?
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by sssilver 5d ago
> I don’t need more surveillance in the guise of consumer tech in my life, much less if anything. Who said this is being done because you need it? You're the product here. The shareholders demand growth.
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by sssilver 5d ago
Does this use AI to determine whether content is about AI?
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by sssilver 7d ago
...and a brave new price
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by sssilver 7d ago
I'd love to see the numbers and the arithmetic that compute down to "more than 10%"
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by sssilver 8d ago
This explains it pretty well: https://academy.claude.com/courses/building-with-the-claude-...
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by sssilver 8d ago
> inherent non-determinism in current AI architectures There's nothing inherent about non-determinism in transformer architectures. All of it is removable.
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by sssilver 8d ago
I wonder whether he's vested any options, and whether he's exercised them.
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by sssilver 8d ago
Thanks -- much better now!
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by sssilver 8d ago
Hopefully you have a bit more impact on the decision making of your marriage shareholders than on public company executives.
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by sssilver 8d ago
Be careful when loving shareholder-driven endeavors; they're a single executive decision away from breaking your heart.
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by sssilver 9d ago
Latest Safari
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by sssilver 9d ago
Testing this on a Macbook Pro M4 Max, dragging is still so choppy that it makes the game significantly less fun.
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by sssilver 9d ago
Playing this on an iPhone 15 Pro, I was wondering — did the frame rate of dragging have to be so painfully low?
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by sssilver 12d ago
Arguably, the only resource you need to get better at it, is time. Every next solder makes you better at soldering. Get through your first 1000 solders as soon as possible, and then keep going. The rest will figure itself out along the way.
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The Largest Electric Aircraft Just Flew(ycombinator.com)
6 points by sssilver 14d ago|0 comments
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by sssilver 14d ago
Fascinating; I find myself a lot more stressed and overstimulated when facing a problem alone than with a friend.
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by sssilver 14d ago
Yes. But then, is any and all public communication about a product or a service originating from a stakeholder of said product or feature basically an ad?
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VRML Virtual Reality Modeling Language (1995)(w3.org)
1 points by sssilver 15d ago|0 comments
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by sssilver 15d ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. Do people care? What signs of this are there? Does it matter to the average person that the society is marching further and further down the road of digital monopolies and surveillance capita
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by sssilver 24d ago
It's about allies spying on each other, a common practice since the dawn of civilization.
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by sssilver 26d ago
Hasn't the computer already been spending time with your wife?
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by sssilver 26d ago
This is the kind of feature that would potentially make me switch, but I feel like at this point AI has disrupted web search for me in such a fundamental way that I rarely use a search engine nowadays.
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by sssilver 28d ago
Not sure about digital cameras or database engines, but computers and the Internet were, in large part, created for military needs first and foremost.
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by sssilver 29d ago
Yes. But also, the very point of this entire thread was that even these highly idiosyncratic goods were orders of magnitude more accessible to the median American household back in 1975. Despite that very same household being orders of ma
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by sssilver 29d ago
I don't know, friend. I am not a moral absolutist. There's nothing that makes my heart tremble like starting the propeller of a small GA airplane. On that moment I reconnect with my nine year old self. You may call me evil, vulgar
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by sssilver 29d ago
it absolutely did. Those were the crumbs I was referring to. It enrages me, because "they" took all the value, and told us "my god, how immoral and vulgar it would be of you to covet the vapid trappings of conspicuous consump

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